diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml
index b5f42b2eec..759c04d320 100644
--- a/man/os-release.xml
+++ b/man/os-release.xml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
 
                 <para>Note that operating system vendors may choose
                 not to provide version information, for example to
-                accomodate for rolling releases. In this case VERSION
+                accommodate for rolling releases. In this case VERSION
                 and VERSION_ID may be unset. Applications should not
                 rely on these fields to be set.</para>
         </refsect1>
diff --git a/units/hwclock-load.service b/units/hwclock-load.service
index 4deb5c10c7..51f255e2ab 100644
--- a/units/hwclock-load.service
+++ b/units/hwclock-load.service
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ RemainAfterExit=yes
 ExecStart=/sbin/hwclock --systz
 StandardOutput=syslog
 
-# Note the weird semantics if hwclock and the kernel here: the first
+# Note the weird semantics of hwclock and the kernel here: the first
 # settimeofday() invocation from userspace is special and may be used
 # to set the offset from UTC of the system clock. It is independent
 # of any specific RTC device. This is mostly a crufty hack to support